Dr. Emily Kainne Dokubo

Dr. Emily Kainne Dokubo serves as Deputy U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator for Program Quality for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). She directs the Office of Program Quality in the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy at U.S. Department of State, which provides technical expertise for the implementation of PEPFAR-supported HIV prevention and treatment programs to achieve the 95-95-95 targets, reduce new HIV infections, and end AIDS as a public health threat.

A Captain (O-6) in the U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. Dokubo previously served as U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director in Cameroon and in the Caribbean Regional Office, and as CDC’s Deputy Director for Programs in Liberia. In these roles, she led U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)/CDC’s strategic support to host governments and advanced U.S. Government’s mission to strengthen health systems and improve health outcomes globally. Working in close collaboration with host governments and partners to advance global health programs and policies, she directed CDC’s implementation of PEPFAR and support to partner countries to control the HIV pandemic, and oversaw the implementation of Global Health Security activities to build resilient health systems with strengthened capacity to prevent, detect and effectively respond to health threats.

Dr. Dokubo began her career at CDC in 2011 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer in the Center for Global Health. As a medical officer in the Division of Global HIV and TB, she served as a subject matter expert for the implementation and scale-up of HIV and Tuberculosis activities to reduce morbidity and mortality in high-burden countries. With expertise in disease outbreak response, she led CDC’s COVID-19 preparedness and response efforts in Cameroon, served as CDC’s response lead in Liberia during the 2014 – 2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and deployed in leadership roles for Ebola outbreaks in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr. Dokubo received her medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine and MPH in International Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed residency trainings and a postdoctoral fellowship in HIV prevention at University of California – San Francisco, and is a double board-certified physician in Internal Medicine and in Preventive Medicine & Public Health.